NOTE: WE ONLY HAVE 3 SPOTS LEFT FOR WEEKDAY EVENINGS!

TUESDAY – 6pm & 7pm

THURSDAY – 6pm

Personal training is not just for athletes, the wealthy  or for those with special needs.  Our clients come from various fitness backgrounds with a number of different goals.  We have helped people train through a number of issues, including:

• Losing the last 5-10 lbs
• Significant weight loss – 20 lbs to extreme obesity
• Increasing cardiovascular strength
• Sport performance (golf, hockey, sprinting, climbing, football, speed skating, etc)
• Size and strength conditioning
• General fitness
• Martial arts conditioning
• Balance improvement
• Prenatal fitness
• Postnatal recovery training (abdominal and pelvic rebuilding)
• Postnatal fitness and weight loss
• Fertility fitness
• Range-of-motion improvement and strengthening
• Rehab training for people with knee, hip, ankle, lower back and shoulder problems
• Specialized training for diabetics
• Specialized training for crohn’s, etc!

Whether you have been training by yourself for years or are completely new to exercise, personalized training programs can help you get past a plateau in your routine or ease you into exercising in a safe way.

Our training programs always take our clients’ individual needs into consideration.  A smart program should address your short term goals in a safe and efficient manner but with the intention of evolving.  No matter how much training experience you have and regardless of your fitness goals, there are always ways to have your program evolve so that you can constantly and seamlessly be productive in your training.  Too often, people forget their original goals and become complacent in their training, content with the simple stimulation of going through the motions.  Having a personal trainer is crucial in making sure you avoid this,  and go beyond reaching your original goals.

Private and semi private training is also great for those who need a little extra incentive to keep their eye on the prize.  Training with a friend or two can really help by making you more driven to show up and perform hard; competition and comradery are great motivating tools! We try and help each of our clients develop motivation to carry on healthy habits for a lifetime.

We try to inspire during our sessions as well as throughout the day via our blog, twitter page, facebook page, e-mail updates, etc.   We try and lead by example by providing our own fitness journals as well as supplying our own motivational tools and tricks.

TRAINING PHILOSOPHY

Joey Reid’s philosophy is that everyone should be a master of their own body.  This means that our balance, strength, stamina and power should be at an elite level while working only with your own body weight. Creating a symmetry of strength, balance and control throughout your body will not only help improve your posture and movement patterns but it will also help prevent injury and create an optimal setting for further training with added weights.  This is no easy task, and not something that needs to impede your short or long term fitness goals, but rather, something that everyone should strive for while working towards these goals.

100% of our clients come to us with some sort of asymmetry, balance or weight problem, flexibility issue , joint movement hindrance or otherwise injury.  Sometimes they know about one of them, maybe two, but almost all of our clients are completely unaware of some kind of problem that is blocking them from achieving their goals.

There is an environmental theory called the Gaia hypothesis, which proposes that all organic and non organic systems on earth are intimately connected and that each is responsible in a creating a stable environment on the planet.  There is no doubt that certain eco-systems directly affect others on our planet and a number of different fields of work are busy finding these connections in order to reverse some of the damages done and prevent further problems with climate change, ocean salinity, biodiversity, etc..The human body can be thought of as a similar work of complex systems, all of which are interdependent and all of which can be responsible for dramatic changes in neighboring systems.  As with our planet, some symptoms of instability in our bodies are more obvious than others.  A sudden pain in the neck, nagging back twinge, or odd change of gait can be what brings us to the osteopath, physiotherapist or strength coach.  But the obvious symptom is often not the source of the problem and so, rarely, the whole picture of what needs to be worked on in order to heal.  By the same token, a plateau in strength building, cardiovascular stamina and training recovery time can be symptoms of problems in your endocrine system rather than the training program itself.

The best trainers and coaches in the world are those that focus not only on climbing the peaks but also who explore the valleys.  Our evaluations and follow up programs are all built with the intention to eliminate all weakness that come to our attention.  If we can not offer a plan that heals, we can help by offering assistance in finding a professional who can.

Almost always it is possible to work at both your intended goals and any other weaknesses simultaneously.  Unless an injury or asymmetry is serious, we can usually still train overall strength or stamina, improve power movements or core strength while at the same time  look at bringing all of your connected systems back to stability i.e. fix the problem.

- “You should be able to do a single leg squat before you can barbell squat 300 lbs., but sometimes this is not the case and often times those with incredible strength have difficulty with body weight exercises, not because of a lack of strength but because of a balance issue or simply a lack of practice in that movement pattern.  Having said that, a complete mastery of your own body weight can still give you incredible strength.” – Joey Reid

Our bodies are in constant flux, affected by the food we eat, the movements we carry out and the external stimuli of our environment.  Our philosophy is to master the body systems that we can, to prolong healthy life.  Preventing injury, increasing strength and promoting superior nutrition will not only prolong your life but improve the life you lead.

NOTE: WE ONLY HAVE 3 SPOTS LEFT FOR WEEKDAY EVENINGS!

TUESDAY – 6pm & 7pm

THURSDAY – 6pm

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